Over the weekend as a result of rains that hit the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, 31 people died and thousands were forced to leave their homes and go to the north to escape the disaster. According to local authorities, 13 people died because of the collapse of the roofs of the houses in the town of Mirzapur, and another 18 people — around Dzhaunpur. Inundated more than 50 villages. Rescue operation hampered by incessant rains, many villages are cut off from the outside world. The water level in the rivers around the state of Uttar Pradesh, including the

Chita forecasters projected, in the western part of the Trans-Baikal region in the near future is not expected precipitation, and this means that the class of fire increase. At risk three districts — Petrovsk-Transbaikal Hilokskaya and Uletovsky. In order to protect the settlements in Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky region today directed a group of 10 firefighters on three tankers based cars "Ural". Two of them contain five and a half tons of water, and the third — three and a half tons. It is planned that the group will work within one of the three districts with the ability to relocate as

According news.gismeteo.ru, the first day of summer, the Middle East was the hottest region of the planet. The highest temperature recorded in Kuwait — 51,2 °. This heat was a record, even for the Arabian Peninsula. As the head of the emirate Weather Service Musa Ramadan, 1 degree broken record of 50 years ago. Usually, this heat is set in late July — early August, but then the temperature is never so high. Situation of the population is somewhat simplified humidity, which dropped to 5%. But the next day, as is often the case in any region

Animal lovers urged the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the next session to be held next week in Panama, to approve a plan to create a whale reserve in the South Atlantic, to preserve the remaining populations of these sea giants, told RIA Novosti director of the Russian representative of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW ) Maria Vorontsov.

Formal appeal to the ICC member countries is contained in a release issued IFAW before the opening of the 64th session of the Commission.

"At the last session due to disagreements within the committee (about half of the participants in favor

Earthquake of magnitude 5.4 occurred on Sunday afternoon in the South Kuril Islands. The epicenter was located underground hit about 130 km south of the city Kurilsk on the island of Iturup. The earthquake lies at a depth of 40 km below the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, said the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to seismologists, Sakhalin, the Pacific tectonic upheavals in the Kuril Islands were not felt, there was no tsunami threat. The Kuril Islands is the second earthquake that day. The first magnitude 4.7 occurred at night, the ITAR-TASS news agency.

The arrival of the weekend in the central regions of European Russia, a powerful cyclone in Eastern Europe will be accompanied by sharp changes in pressure, ice, sleet and rain, told RIA Novosti the Situation Centre Hydromet.

"The biggest danger — the buildup of snow on the wire. Due to the strong temperature differences in height freezing precipitation, ice," — said the source.

As previously reported, on Saturday and Sunday in the Central Federal District (CFD) to the south-west to north-east will move an active cyclone.

According to the representative of the Centre, on Saturday evening, the storm will come

11.07.11.Vchera, July 10, about 10-00 in Melitopol (Zaporizhia region). Communal found sinkhole diameter of about one meter in the middle of the roadway on the street. Kirov near stop "Pedagogical University."

As it turned out, the ground sank due to crumbling sewer area. Asbestos cement pipe diameter of 300 mm has served exactly 50 years and will now be replaced with PVC pipe of larger diameter — 400 mm, pass "MV".

As the deputy director of the production enterprise "Vodokanal" Paul Laba, work on roll direction 30-meter section of the sewer will be conducted at a depth of

Due to drought in some parts of England there is a serious shortage of water resources. At the beginning of 2012 was a drought in eastern and south-eastern England, where there were restrictions on the use of water. Projections of continued drought concerns that the ban could spread to the car wash, cleaning roads and public swimming pools. The average person uses 150 liters of water a day, and during the period of 2010-2011, the company responsible for water resources, averaged about 3.4 billion liters of daily water use in England and Wales.

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